Azerbaijan's Ministry of Defense has issued a statement saying that
the Armenian captive has died.

According to the source, the Azerbaijani authorities have informed
the representatives of the ICRC, that the 31-year-old resident of the
Chinari (Tavush region), who was claimed a saboteur by Azerbaijani
propaganda, died of An acute cardiovascular disorder.

Recall, Karen Petrosyan, was taken captive in Azerbaijan's Aghbulad
village on Thursday.

Karen Petrosyan, the resident of Chinari (Tavush region) detained
Thursday in Azerbaijan, has only elementary education and suffers
from mental problems, says the regional governor.

Speaking to Tert.am, Hovik Abovyan confirmed his earlier statement
that the young man was drunk in committing what the Azerbaijanis
claim to be an act of sabotage.

"He cannot even think of an act of sabotage because, I know well,
he has only elementary education and mental health problems and takes
antipsychotics," Mr Abovyan said.

The Azerbaijani mass media claimed Thursday that an Armenian
"saboteur," Karen Petrosyan, had been detained on the
Armenian-Azerbaijani border.

Interestingly, he was first shown in civilian clothes, but later in
a uniform.

A spokesperson for the Ministry of Defense, Artsrun Hovhannisyan,
said the footage simply provokes laughter from the professional point
of view.

"They catch [a captive] in his own sports shoes, for example, but then
put jackboots on him. They make him wear just a hunter's vest without
thinking that it's a civilian cloth. One never goes to commit an act
of sabotage in a sporting uniform or a hunter's vest. If that's how
they think about their saboteurs, then I will avail myself of the
opportunity to say that our special assignment forces are definitely
better dressed. As for armament that they had made a show of in such
a polished way, that's their military's armament. The armament that
a saboteur holds in his hands is normally dusty and dirty and - if
others were wounded or killed - also bloody. So polished guns are
ruled out. And the mobile that they seized from him is an ordinary
Nokia whose camera would not take the kind of photos that they had
made an array of," he noted.

The spokesperson described the Azerbaijanis move as a slapstick form
of show.

Commenting on the incident, psychologist Karine Nalchajyan referred
to the general psychological situation in Azerbaijan's military. "Let
us try to analyze the psychological condition of those responsible
for Azerbaijan's military. They are psychologically very oppressed
now and in a state of clenching teeth," she noted.

As to whether the move is part of the Azerbaijani information warfare
with Armenia, Samvel Martirosyan, a Yerevan-based media expert, said
he is inclined to think that it is more linked to political-military
factors aimed at creating a mirror effect.

"In the pictures which they published, the weapons that he allegedly
possessed were there to create the effect of a counter-reaction to
the saboteurs [who targeted] Karvachar. They have created a kind of
mirror effect. So this is not an informative counter-attack but rather
- an operation against our army. Likewise our military's success to
hold their saboteurs, their army is now catching a 'saboteur'. This
has to be considered in a political-military context rather than
treated as an information warfare. Psychological pressures count too,
of course, but the key point is this. So the poor man kind of fell
prey to retaliatory operations," he explained.

Azerbaijani journalist calls on public not to believe official version of Karen Petrosyan being ‘‘diversionist’’

Nijat Amiraslanov, the author of the video footage that is placed on the site of “Azeri life”, touched upon the events concerning the citizen of Armenia Karen Petrosyan, and on his page on the social network of Facebook shared the footage of the incident and encouraged to disseminate it in order to expose the disinformation spread by the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry.
As the author of the video noted, between the residents of Azerbaijani village Agbulag, who found the lost Armenian, and the militants that arrived in the village, a skirmish took place, as the journalists had noticed that Karen Petrosyan was detained by the local residents, while the militants banned to take the events on the camera.
Author of the article tells that the local 17-year-old boys had detained the Armenian guy. Karen Petrosyan did not offer resistance and asked only for tea. He was taken to a rural tea house. One of the interlocutors notes at the same time that the lost Armenian was in white sneakers from the very beginning, and wonders "how these shoes turned into military boots?".
On August 8, the Azerbaijani media, reported, referring to the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry, about the death of 31-year-old resident of Chinari village of Tavush region Karen Petrosyan who was found in Azerbaijan. He allegedly died in Baku from "heart failure." It was noted that "the causes of death are being investigated in Ganja regional center of forensic and pathological anatomy."
Earlier, the Armenian media reported that Karen Petrosyan was a resident of Chinari village of Tavush region of Armenia. He had left on 7 August for the nearby forest to gather firewood. Apparently, Karen Petrosyan had got lost and had found himself in the territory of Azerbaijan. This is confirmed by the primary statements of the Azerbaijani media.
It should be noted that Karen Petrosyan, resident of Chinari village of Tavush region of Armenia, was presented in Azerbaijan as a diversionist and spy. They had even circulated in the media materials on questioning of the citizen of the Republic of Armenia. The footage also clearly demonstrates that he was subjected to severe tortures. He gives only positive answers to the orders of the Azerbaijani militants. Video footage also makes it obvious that Karen Petrosyan is accused of allegedly being a serviceman. They present photographs allegedly taken from his cell phone. Meanwhile, the provided high quality images taken from the old modeled mobile phone and the absence of the faces in the photos suggest that these pictures are not taken from this mobile phone, and are most likely loaded there later, after the capture of Karen Petrosyan. There is every reason to believe that Karen Petrosyan died that night as a result of tortures by the Azerbaijani militants. It is also noteworthy that, according to information he died in Baku, while the autopsy is carried out in Ganja (the distance between these two cities is 372 km).

NKR Defense Army: By killing Armenian prisoner the Azeri army has
proved once against that it is a medieval barbarous gang

by Tatevik Shahunyan

ARMINFO
Saturday, August 9, 19:17

By killing Armenian prisoner Karen Petrosyan, the Azeri army has
proved once against that it is a medieval barbarous gang, preferring
not to fight in the battlefield but to slaughter a sleeping soldier or
a helpless prisoner, Nagorno-Karabakh's Defense Army said on Saturday.

"The murder of a prisoner is part of the Azeri Defense Ministry's
policy to distort the truth about its defeats and casualties," the NKR
Defense Army says.
31-year-old villager from Armenia's Tavush region, Karen Petrosyan,
was captured by Azeris two days ago. On Friday the Azeri Defense
Ministry reported his death from an alleged heart attack. But the
Armenian side says the man had no heart problems and demands
organizing an independent international examination.

Azerbaijani general who tortured Armenian hostage, is called murderer even in his homeland

It turned out that the hands of the General of the Azerbaijani army Rovshan Akbarov who during the interrogation had tortured Karen Petrosyan, the hostage from the Armenian village Chinari, are in blood of not only the Armenians but also the Azerbaijanis, the news agency “Pastinfo” informs. It writes that the Azerbaijani bloggers and Internet users write about it openly.
Akperov is one of the youngest generals of the Azerbaijani army. By the end of the Artsakh war, he had a grea prestige among the military leadership of Azerbaijan. Akperov has provided services to President Heydar and Ilham Aliyevs more than once, eliminating those Azerbaijani veterans of Karabakh war who were hampering the implementation of their plans.

Probably as gratitude for these services in 1998 Akperov was appointed commander of the Fourth Army Corps of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan. And now, according to Azerbaijani sources, he claims for the ministerial post. In this context, apparently, another heroic act was the "accidental" death of the innocent Armenian young man.

Thus, according to the Azerbaijani media, Shamkhor Corps headed by him is the most corrupt one. Here are recorded large numbers of unsolved mysterious deaths of soldiers.

As for the moral character of Akperov, then he has always been distinguished by the fact that he had periodically arranged fights while being drunk. In 1996, he has even been taken to the police station for being intoxicated.

Akperov has once become a cause of a road accident, when he once again had a conflict with the police. All of these cases at the time caused extensive discussions among the Azerbaijani users, one of them even came to the conclusion that "Akperov is not the person he means to be. No one should trust him."

However, the most important chapter of his biography is that 10 years ago he in Kiev he had killed one of his compatriots. This case entered even the European Court. Of the document of the European Court it became clear that in 2001 Akperov who was passing training at a military school in Ukraine, had a dispute with the Azerbaijani entrepreneur Elchin Aliyev and killed him by a knife. The Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine prepared the documents and sent to the Azerbaijani prosecutor's office, but the case was hushed up, and Akperov remained unpunished.

PanARMENIAN.Net - Paris is deeply shocked by the death of Armenian
citizen Karen Petrosyan killed in Azeri captivity, French Foreign
Ministry spokesman Romain Nadal said in a statement.

"France offers its condolences to Karen Petrosyan's family. We urge
Azeri authorities to return his body immediately and launch a probe
into circumstances of his death," the statement said.

Baku, as usual, acted mortified by blaming France with a "bad habit of
interfering in Azeri affairs" and "overtly pro-Armenian stance, which
renders its Co-Chairmanship in the OSCE Minsk Group unsuitable,"
Haqqin.az reported.

HISTORIAN: AS MANY AS 27,000 ARMENIAN CULTURE MONUMENTS DEMOLISHED IN NAKHIJEVAN IN 1998-2006

by David Stepanyan

Wednesday, April 1, 13:49

As many as 27,000 Armenian culture monuments were demolished in
Nakhijevan in 1998-2006, Argam Ayvazyan, Armenian historian and expert
in cultural studies, has told ArmInfo.

"It is noteworthy that before 1998 the process of demolition of
Armenian churches, chapels, khachkars and other cultural and historical
monuments was going on relatively slowly. Nearly 30 monuments were
destroyed in the Nakhijevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
during the Soviet years," he says.

Ayvazyan points out that during the years of the Karabakh war, not
a single monument of culture was demolished in Nakhijevan up to the
year 1998. The process intensified starting from 1998. "The latest
act of that barbaric policy was the demolition of the khachkars
(cross-stones) in the Old Jugha cemetery in 2005- 2006", he says.

An honored man of culture of Armenia, Argam A. Ayvazyan is author of
200 works. He has studied the historical monuments of Nakhijevan for
45 years.